Movie Speeches Cue the inspirational music!

Best Oscar Acceptance Speeches:
Tom Hanks Philadelphia

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes
American Rhetoric Movie Speeches--some video, all audio
Fifty Great Movie Monologues (youtube based)
Film Speech Webpage

A Time to Kill Closing Arguent ( )
Any Given Sunday Inches (analogy)
Armageddon- President's Speech (allusion, inclusive "we")
Dead Poets Society Carpe Diem (inspiring, interacts with class while lecturing)
Friday Night Lights
The Girl in the Cafe (2005) Ignoring the Poor
Good Night and Good Luck (2005) Ideas, Information, Television, and McCarthy
Good Will Hunting Park ............ Bar - Matt Damon Debate
Independence Day Today is Our Independence Day (inclusive we)
Jaws The Indianapolis (anecdote) Character Quint's tale of the USS Indianapolis was conceived by playwright Howard Sackler, lengthened by screenwriter John Milius and rewritten by the actor, Robert Shaw, following a disagreement between screenwriters Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb. Quint got the date of the sinking wrong, June 29, 1945, when in reality it was July 30th, 1945. Note that June 29, however, is the date (in the film) that the young boy was eaten by the shark, as can be seen in the hand-written "reward" notice.
Lean on Me Make a Liar Out of Those Bastards
Legally Blonde Graduation Speech
The Lord of the the Rings Tales That Really Matter.........Aragorn's Speech
Malcolm X We Were Black (definition, anaphora, listing, epistrophe)
Meatballs It Just Doesn't Matter (repetition, rh. question) The antithesis of every sports underdog motivational speech (like The
The Mighty Ducks D2- We Are Ducks, And Ducks Fly Together (definition)
The Miracle Pre-Game Speech
Rocky //Rocky Balboa's Speech to his son//
Shawshank Redemption Morgan Freeman: "I look back on the way I was then..."
Stripes (1981) - Bill Murray: "We are Mutts" speech (definition, compare and contrast, pathos, analogy)
There Will Be Blood- Daniel Plainview's Pitch The ending speech is better, but huge spoilers.
Team America (2004)
  • The first minute or two puts the speech into context, the actual speech starts at 1:30.
Trainspotting- Choose Life
V is for Vendetta (2005) Intro to Evey (alliteration)
V for Vendetta (2005) Remember the Fifth of November Speech
We Are Marshall